A-Stone Highway

Austin enjoys scouring the countryside for good times and hot skates. He's gone from one tour to the next and gets back tonight from the Wild Ride. Trooper through and through...

Psychosomatic Grif eats a Mushroom

This guy looked at Grif after he barfed. But it was all psychosomatic
AND...

Based on some comments that Kevin looked like an Arabian guy in a metal band, I remembered that me and the team thinks he looks like these guys: David Blaine, Adam Goldberg, and Judd Nelson. (or Borat!)

Mantics

Ed uses tour as a time to get tough, sharpen his man skills. He seemed to be in some sort of tough guy contest with Grif and they were always ribbing each other to get gnarly in some way...
Anyway, It's not like this police brutality!

Billy ran into these guys in a Wal-Mart...

They recognized him, and then he brought them out to meet me. They said they had signed up for the army and were now being shipped out to Iraq. Grif asked them for an inappropriate one... This is what Billy had to say about it.

This Plus This Equals This, Go Figure...

Kevin and his Parents. They told me that he was an ugly baby.

All Grows Up

Our little JLay is all grows up. He's got a shoe coming out and a house in the burbs. Maybe he gets down on life sometimes but he always comes back up. Atta boy Johnny....

White Sands Pee Stop

Bilbo Rider

Billy ponders his future contest wins as Ed learns how to drive safely and listen intently to the thoughts of his team. He heard Billy think about this.

The Twists and Turns of Tour

With the constant signings, tedious demos schedules, loading up the van, sleeping on the road, and general dregs of tour life, a little spice must come and before you know it, you're gearing up for hockey. Life takes you to strange places...

Pretty Girls Make Graves

At that's what I've heard...

This Sign Goes On Every Tour

...and it comes in handy often.

It's A Mad, Mad Harmony

Harmony is completely nuts. After ollie northing this motorcycle a cop busted him for reckless driving, but he was slow clapped into submission.

Excuse Me, I'd Like To Get By Now...

This kid rules.

Strong Enough For A Man...

It's usually a pretty big dude fest at skateboard demos but these girls came out in the tornado to show their suport. They even brought their moms.

Sky Rockets In Flight

Josh gets epic while Ed lights up and arts out. Everybody got in on the action from Diego pissing around to Johnny trying to shoot the sun. Sometimes the piss stops are the best part of the day...

Got Game

Quit skating,play video games.

Billy Balls getting driven deep...

Couldn't wait, did it right in the Wal-Mart parking lot into the freeway or people's houses. (allegedly)

Josh has a soft-serve dipped in 'red'?

What is this 'red'? Water, Sugar, Red. Somewhere in Kansas.

More from Nashville, Tennessee...

This night was ludicrous.

Bradford was 100% 'On Party'. And Grif was getting man-handled by sloppy street trollops...

Kevin was so happy tour was over...

He grabbed a pole and did the strong man pose for 20 minutes...

Billy was so happy tour was over...

He built a bomb and lit it in the van!!!!
Luckily, he threw it out before it exploded.
This is the bomb before he fills it with gun-powder from cut open fireworks.
And in unrelated news, recent heavy storms have filled the Bondi Skatepark in Australia with sand...

Austin, Texas, so hot right now...

Even Diego was feeling Big ol' Texas. Next years' tour... Your Feelings, I Care.
Josh had so much energy after dinner that he almost focussed poor Kevin. Then the next thing you know, Grant is putting Josh in a toadstool.

Don't get Johnny angry, you wouldn't like it.

Johnny went Bruce Banner in the 'worlds most poorly designed skatepark'
It's in some suburb of Austin Texas, I forget the name...
It was our last demo of the tour, so we had a team dinner at some random Mexican restaurant, (and here's another angle) then drove around super-soaking people from the van. At the signing before the demo (while Johnny was still calm) this kid had Josh sign his Toy Machine inspired Tattoo.
Now that's a loyal pawn. Thank you, Toy Machine minion for the support.

The kids were desiring strange things in Oklahoma

And so Diego went double fisted with the super-soakers and started doing damage. Nothing inappropriate like Griffin in Nashville, although that is not as inappropriate as this racist dude...

Broken Arrow / Tulsa Oklahoma...

Kids with posters...

Diego fans bring meat cleavers to please the master Butcher...
We signed posters after skating on ramps in a parking lot until a storm dumped its rain on us, ending the demo. I did a random inspection of a kids wallet and lo and behold, found a Garth Brooks trading card wrapped in plastic!!!

Josh was channelling Mick Jagger...

As he sang Karaoke versions of Honky-Tonk Women, Brown-Eyed Girl, and Tumbling Dice by the Rolling Stones.

The whole team got up on stage and started getting crazy... Josh even got up onto the bar and worked his moves for the crowd. Billy was in disbelief when he saw this go down from the outside.

Nashville was going off...

The CMA festival was in town, and country music fans were out drinking beers.

Poor Nick Trapasso was getting freaked by some middle aged married women. And they never stopped, even when he tried to leave. The bouncer made him dance with them...

Rob Strasser, BEFORE

And AFTER...

Demo at Sixth Avenue Skatepark in Nashville

Went off! I don't mean to brag, but we nailed it.

This Fireman brought his son to the demo, and even skated himself back in 1986!!!
Here is a kid from the last demo since I didn't shoot any digi-shots.
There was a mom with her teenage son, she was grabbing the large black dildo that some kids brought for Ed to autograph.

RQ in Naperville BONANZA!!!!!

Kids lined up in front of RQ skateshop in wait of their master, the Bloodsucking company, Toy Machine.

Super Pawns bring gifts to their Overlords, in this case a mini Transistor Sect.

Josh Harmony revisits his hometown, and his young (and showing!!) wife Jenna...

This loyal minion shows his appreciation by adorning his face with all things Toy.
Before the demo we bought Super Soakers and used them to intimidate Austin.
This Kid ruled. J-Lay marked his chest as a infantryman for Toy Machine.
We got a carved piece of wax in Monster form that Kevin licked, and Johnny thought was disgusting...
Later at the demo, Johnny scored this hipper while trying face high ally-oop frontside airs.

Skaters from Naperville, Illinois...

Some loyal Toy pawns who demanded to be on the website.

Shotgunning rootbeers is so hot right now.

Billy

Bradford...
They love root beer.

This kid took his love for Toy Machine all the way

Buy cutting our logo into his flesh... At the 3rd Lair in Minneapolis.

I signed the same shirt as Dick Cheney...

Scary! Dennis Miller is above me too. This guy was in Iraq and got shot, Purple Heart and all. He even had money with Saddam Hussein printed on it!

Today was our demo at 3rd Lair in Minneapolis, it went very well. The guys there are cool, and the crowd was supportive. Nick T gouged his back on a flat bar and it took him out. Austin Stephens was killing it and did the demo-ending kickflip over the gap. Johnny practiced his one foots.
We picked up Diego the Butcher today too!

Random Golf stop?

On our drive to Minneapolis we stopped at a lake in hopes of swimming. But a local senior couple told us that the Fecal Matter in the lake was too high. Basically the lake was filled with poop. So Josh, Grant, and Rob tried to go fishing, while Billy teed up some golf balls and hit them into the water.

We were talking about Galagher the other day. The next thing you know...

Billy was whacking shaken unopened beer cans just for the explosion.

After the demo is when the action started...

After our demo at South Skate roller rink in Des Moines, Iowa, we went into the back room to watch the last period of the Stanley cup playoffs game with the Ducks of Anaheim against the Ottawa Senators. Billy, Ed, and Grant, are the only ones interested really. But then we realized that the roller rink may have hockey equipment... They did! The dudes there are so rad, they let us set up a full game. And they gave us free Lik-m-aid Fun Dips. After the game, Billy got into the goalie gear and let us take shots at him...

Toy Demo ends when Dallas R breaks ankle...

In a bummer twist of events, Dallas Rockvam, TWS coverboy this month and HB park regular, was in Des Moines Iowa while we were there. He skated the demo with us, which ended when he came off a sketchy quarterpipe trick weird and broke his ankle. He currently sits in a hospital somewhere in Iowa getting surgery.
Get well soon Dallas!!!!!!!!

We have not yet lost it, but it's coming soon...

We will be crazy before it is over.

Kevin's Mom inspects J-Lay's new Tattoos...

She said, "Don't Fear the Reaper..."

Our filmer Kevin Barnett's 8th birthday party...

That was 1988. We just left Kevin's hometown of Kansas City, and I asked Kevin's mother to e-mail me some old photos of Kevs. She busted this one out right away! We are in Des Moines, Iowa right now... Demo tomorrow at SubSect shop...

Griff gets all up in da mix...

Black people love Griffin, and he loves them.

Escapist signing...

The demo was EPIC!!!! The whole team slaughtered it. I can't explain how rad it was. I didn't shoot photos 'cause I was skating, but you can see it in our tour video later this year.
All I know is that this kid was amped.

Johnny played 'grab only' SKATE with Billy...

You could do any trick, as long as it involves a grab.
Johnny's tricks were so high off flat that it looked like he had a ramp. Billy busted out kickflip roast beef/mute combos... Epic.

Signing and Demo TODAY at Escapist in KC!!!!!!

Billy plays SKATE with Johnny...
All skaters who live in or around Kansas City Missouri/Kansas are REQUIRED to come to both our signing at 5:30 at Escapist skateshop. And our Demo at Penn Valley skatepark at 7:00.

Diego gets gnarly right before tour...

And ends up doing the splits Van Damme style, ruining both knees at the same time.